Parent’s Information EveningNursery Unit

September 2011

Nursery Team - Kathy Embleton and Tanya Mishkorudnaya with Olga Beldy and Zoya

Puchkaryova

Intended outcomes

By the end of this session we will have:

• Established the links between classroom practice and the types of children we are helping to develop

• Provide you with an insight to your child’s school day

• Provide an opportunity to ask general questions

SIS….A learning focussed school.

The Learning Triangle

Learning should be

•appropriate

•sufficient

•engaging

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LEARNING

Learning in the Nursery

The overriding purpose of early years education is to help children develop the skills and attitudes they will need both at this level and throughout a lifetime of learning.

Children need an holistic educational experience that doesn’t create artificial boundaries between different aspects of their development.

The children learn via:

Focussed activities

Enhanced activities

Continuous activities

The Nursery CurriculumThe Nursery uses the International

Primary Curriculum or IPC

Our units this year will be

Term 1 Nursery Rhymes Food

Term 2 Let’s Pretend Bears

Term 3 Houses and Homes Sand and Water

4 Strands of learning

International learning outcomes

We use aspects of the English National Curriculum for

English and Maths where appropriate.

The Personal Goals

Our day in the Nursery8.15-8.30 Table top activities

8.30-9am Carpet time-story, songs, learning focus

9-10.10am Learning activities – Front/Back room

10.10-10.40am Wash hands, snack, story, change for playtime.

10.40-11am Playtime in Nursery playground

11-11.35 Learning activities Back room/Playroom.

11.35-11.50am Learning review, story, songs

Afternoon Nursery

1-2pm Maths/pre reading/pre-writing/ IPC extention

2-2.15pm Playtime on main field

2.15-2.55 Learning activities/choosing

2.55-3.10 Learning review, story

Other places we learn…

• Library• PE• Music• ICT sessions• Outside area• TV• Cookery• Trips• Assemblies• Visitors to school• Performances• School events

Home school communication

•Home school book

•Observations

•Song book

•Before/After school

•Termly Open evenings followed by Parents Evening

•End of Year Report

•Email address

Your involvement in Nursery

• Education is seen as a relationship between school, the child and the family

• Feel free to visit any of the rooms with your child to see what they have been learning – have a close look

• Speak to them about learning

• We complete assessments and observations, details of these will be fed back to you.

Organisation• Nursery contact sheets• Class parent representative• Skills and interests• Home and Host resources• Behaviour – how we manage behaviour in nursery• –positive behaviour management, time out chair, apologies• House points – join for PG certificates/stickers• School bags and PE bags• Book bags• Shoes and jackets• Snacks• Toilet Training• Sick children and noses• Useful items• Outdoor play – extended classroom• Mother’s Day and Father’s Day• Moving from pre-nursery to nursery• Future workshops• Concert and Nursery Assembly

Useful websiteswww.nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/earlyyears

www.internationalprimarycurriculum.com

www.underfives.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk

www.activityvillage.co.uk

www.agame.com

www.schooljotter.com/showpage.php?id=55673

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years

www.poissonrouge.com

www.topicbox.net/foundation_stage

www.boohbah.tv